2. Hire John Calipari after he had a tough season at UK or just a younger coach to benefit their youth movement

3. Promote front office position such as Scott Perry to president and fire Steve Mills

4. Knicks/Warriors Trade

a. Warriors Receive: Kyle O-Quinn

b. Knicks Receive: GS 2018 first round pick, Patrick McCaw

5.Select Miles Bridges with their first round pick (projected 8-11) and select Austin Wiley with the Warriors first round pick (projected 30)

6. Lett Jarret Jack walk in free agency

7. Resign Michael Beasley to a 1 year 10 million dollar contract, resign Enes Kanter on a 4 year 80 million dollar Contract, sign Mario Hezonja to a 1 year 3 million dollar deal, sign Lucas Nogueira to a veterans minimum for some rim protection

14 Feb 2018 06:23:39
Trade Lee for Asik if CHI is open to it, (Asik expires next season) maybe A. Jefferson? Discourage Kanter from signing if possible, (terrible on defense without Porzingis) Trade if possible for value. Take on Biyombo, or Dieng, and a good player or pick. I like the valuation on Beasley. No more than 2 years for Beez though. Bridges, Lee, Thomas way too similar to M. Leonard, Harkless, Turner. Avoid that. Burke will have interest from other teams if Knicks don't pay a little more. No on Nogueira. Pray Ntilikina shows something soon, and isn't another Caboclo. I'd trade him for value now that Mudiay is there. Burke is better too. BOS, and PHI are showing everyone the example of how to build. CHI, LAC are doing good too. No Mills, no Hornacek. Hire Udoka from S. A. Or Stackhouse from G-league. See if Steve Nash wants to coach? One of the hardest workers, and fundamentals guy to ever play. His style was the new NBA. Get a coach to grow with the players. Calipari too high profile paid too much too. Porzingis is the star, not the coach. 2019 is a good free agent summer. Be prepared with cap. Round out the roster with scrappy hard working non-guaranteed deals. Hardaway, Beez, Porzingis, Mudiay, this years pick are the foundation.

14 Feb 2018 07:34:54
Anyone know if Knicks could pay Noah 30 million next season, and 6 the following in a buy-out? With Zinger out, and next season likely a rebuilding year take the brunt of the contract all at one time?

14 Feb 2018 13:07:53
No one should hire Calipari. The guy is a great recruiter, but only a mediocre coach. They should just eat Noah's contract. I don't see Kanter opting out of his contract this year and if he did, he isn't getting 20 million. There aren't a ton of teams with big cap space. I think that's an over pay for Beasley as well.

14 Feb 2018 16:36:24
I never understand all this love for Calipari. He gets the top guys year in and year out but has only done something with the top talent once. Like you said great recruiter but VERY mediocre coach.

15 Feb 2018 17:16:53
Tostitochip17, I don't think New York has really ever failed to attract free agents. The city speaks for its self. They have done that time and time again, just look back to 2010 when they had Melo and Amare. The problem has always been that they don't have a capable coach to surround these guys. Just having the best guys on one roster doesn't mean anything if the coach can't coach. And I think that's exact the case for Callipari.

13 Feb 2018 11:54:44
Back to back tanking, thank god your not the gm. Please no more former players as coaches. We need a head coach, who can teach defense to my identity back. No more international players who can't play defense and aren't athletic. Jay Wright Knicks next coach

Step two
Lakers extend Julius Randle and sign Isaiah Thomas+Avery Bradley in order to compete

Step 3
Have assets to move at the 2019 deadline and still save a load of money to spend on 2019 free agents. Klay will be available and want a max deal which the Warriors won't be able to afford. Jimmy Butler will also be there but that's unrealistic. Lebron James will likely only sign a 1 year tenure to the Rockets or excursive his player option to return to the Cavs. All in all, the Lakers will have money to sign a superstar weather they want to in 2018 or 2019. Personally I think that the free agent class will be stronger in 2019 compared to the 2018 class.

09 Feb 2018 19:45:20
I think the 2018 is stronger with James George Durant cousins Paul and possibly Jordan. But 2019 is younger and better to build with Lakers. Leonard and Klay would be great and trade Ingram for a center. Plus they could keep Deng for one more year and can easily trade in 2019 with Ingram and a couple picks for whiteside.
Ball
Thompson
Leonard
Kuzma
Whiteside.

11 Feb 2018 07:23:41
@true99 i'd keep ingram regardless of if u can get lebron, pg, kawhi, butler. the way the league is moving, wings are invaluable and u can do just fine without a traditional big. and ingram will be an all star. come 2019-20 whiteside and dj (both 30+) won't give u close to the same value as him.

02 Feb 2018 20:39:27
assuming they renounce every expiring player lakers would have about 10 mil left after pg and boogie signings, assuming they trade clarkson, would need a point guard, and some decent bench players. they could bring back lopez on bird rights. i see this team having some trouble contending. they need to keep lonzo and ingram. and they shouldn't be making deals that help the warriors.

02 Feb 2018 04:53:28
I had Galloway going to GSW because I thought he fits very well with how they play. He isn’t a playmaker but he defend pg position very well and is a streaky shooter. With Drey and Durant his ballhandling and distributing could hidden. Seems like a good trade for the champs.

29 Jan 2018 04:00:19
To big a risk for the Cavs. They already need another center and this makes them desperate for a center this year. There is also a decent chance IT, Bron, and Cousins would all walk.

29 Jan 2018 05:26:39
Tristan actually is a good perimeter defender for a center and he's currently in the starting line up before that he was playing 20+ minutes off the bench. As long as he's healthy he will play significant minutes against the Warriors. The Cavs would basically be sacrificing this year (they trade almost all of their tradable assets and it would be hard to make a significant 2nd move) for the hope that they can keep it together next year and using two assets that would help in a rebuild. Tristan will only have 2 years left on his deal at the start of next year, so if it is a rebuild, the contract really doesn't hamper the Cavs plans. If the Cavs were more stable right now, it would be something to consider, but things are way to volatile to take a risk like that.

23 Jan 2018 15:58:16
Pop, Parker, Ginobli will leave around the same time. Spurs are going into a bit of a rebuild mode. Look for Aldridge in the next couple seasons headed to another Texas team, and Kawhi going elsewhere as well. Not yet though. LeBron has no intention of going to SanbAntonio to develop his production company, and Paul George if he switches teams again will be a Clipper, or Laker. Neither guy helps Lakers by agreeing to a sign and trade. Aldridge, and Heyward both didn't do that because it drains team of assets they are going to. Not helpful if you want to win.

23 Jan 2018 06:23:56
In my opinion, the Cavs have no chance of beating the Warriors in the finals with their roster, and it's too late for a complete makeover, but if they could realistically make one with realistically available players, this would be mine:

23 Jan 2018 09:59:57
It’s never to late for a complete roster makeover espically if the Cavs will continue to play like this. I mean they already aren’t going to win and as of now they probably wouldn’t even win the East so if they decide to move 4-6 players I would be surprise/ mad about it.

Cavs finally get defensive minded with Jordan and Batum and a guy four inches taller than Thomas to bother the great PGs they will face in the playoffs in Beverley and Walker. Walker's play style will work much better with LeBron because he doesn't have to have the ball to be effective.

Hornets start the rebuild with two picks inside the top ten in a very talented draft class while still being able to hit the cap floor for the next few years.

Clippers can offer IT big-ish contract if they'd like, or get him off the books. Kevin Love can be a force in the pick and roll with Collison and space the floor for Griffin. They can go for the playoffs if they'd like, or tank starting next year by trading Griffin and flipping Love who will only have two years left on his deal with a team option. Rose is exciting and would play with Lou Williams well, and is an expiring deal. Zizic is a young and scrappy 4 for the future.